Sino-Tibetan Gilt Bronze Headdress

The horse in advancing pose with one foreleg raised, copious flowing mane; the female rider with upright posture, wearing an ankle-length robe with long bell sleeves, scooped shoulder panels and raised collar, white underdress with long tubular sleeves, hair piled in an elaborate bun. 6 kg, 51.5 cm



From a West Country, UK, collection, 1990s. Accompanied by a thermoluminescence analysis report no.12C26042024 from Laboratory Kotalla.

Large storage vessel with barrel-shaped neck, sloped shoulder with incised hatching, stepped profile and body decorated with incised hatched pattern and reserved meander; applied base ring 4.18 kg, 40.5 cm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Comprising three facetted powder boxes with painted floral and geometric motifs to the body, two with the lidded decorated with floral motifs and one with an advancing traveller. 178 grams total, 47-48 mm



Ex Butterfield and Butterfield auction with official Hoi An Hoard labels. Accompanied by an illustrated information sheet about the Hoi An shipwreck.

In the mid 15th century a freighting junk loaded with fine Vietnamese pottery sank in an area of the South China Sea called the 'Dragon’s Embrace.' This vessel is part of the shipwreck cargo recovered off the coast of Vietnam at Hoi An. The ceramics themselves were probably made in the area of Chu Dau.